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Click on image for more info on Grieving, Hope and Solace from Cruciform Press.When a Loved One Dies in Christ by Albert N. Martin.
A few weeks after Albert Martin’s wife died, he began preaching the series of sermons from which this excellent little book came. He was answering the question of what it means to grieve a loved one who has died in Christ, for himself first and also for his congregation.
What I appreciated most was Martin’s biblical description (as much as it can be described) of the intermediate state—the time between the death of a believer and the resurrection of the dead. It’s a neglected subject, I’d say. For one, we are not told much about it in scripture; and two, we prefer to skip right over to the best part—the final state and the believer’s glorification. But I know from experience that when a loved one dies, the question that nags is “Where are they? What is happening to them right now?”
Thankfully, we are told enough that we can be comforted by what we know. What we can know about the intermediate state gives us the ability to grieve as people who have a solid hope. And thankfully, Albert Martin has worked through what the Bible tells us about what happens directly after the death of a believer and presented it to us in Grieving, Hope and Solace.
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